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Rosie Herrera, center, works through a scene with dancers for her piece, <em>Various Stages of Drowning: A Cabaret</em>, for the American Dance Festival at Duke.
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Hialeah choreographer brings a unique South Florida mix to American Dance Festival

The grand pillars and ornate interior of Baldwin Auditorium here on the oak-covered grounds of Duke University are a world away from Rosie Herrera's native Hialeah. And the polyglot group of earnest dancers assembled onstage for rehearsal this steamy Southern afternoon -- from Taiwan, Hong Kong, South Korea, Japan, Germany, Spain, Thailand, Russia, and the American heartland -- know nothing of the pulsing Latin clubs and drag queen extravaganzas that have shaped her as a performer and director.

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